In seventies, bare seventeen you look,
To me, forever in your teen you look.
Just one more year and all ready to wed,
One, ever playing youthful bin, you look.
Wallowing in youthful wealth, scarce without,
Of happiness and content, queen you look.
Secret? Fate nor fortune comes in your way,
Work as worship can be seen in your look.
Sweet touch of breeze, and wetness mischievous,
Life’s golden touchstone, yen and yin you look.
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Ghazal | 07.02.2026 | humour, life, wife
Note: Humorous ghazals are often known as Hazal.
To keep one’s better half in good humour is half the battle won, they say. Now at this late age if the rest of it is lost it matters little, I hope.
Fingers in hair you flirt with flair,
Feel fine in fair romantic air,
Why then this sneer on face
And concealed suppressed stress?
What floats in soup’s her piece of hair.
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Epigram |02.07.2024| humour
Poet’s Note: A man loves flirting with his fingers in wife’s hair. Then when finds a piece of hair in his soup, gets annoyed. Based on a Hazal in Gujarati by Lalit Varma
Her gossip, holy dung,
Her scoring points, ho hung,
That get on my mind clung,
The rest is pretty fine.
Fine her stare of sharp eye,
Fine, full cheeks, dimpled nigh,
But for her battle cry,
The rest is pretty fine.
Let her utensils strike,
Grumbles as if on mike,
But for her moods on hike,
The rest is pretty fine.
Forever oven-fresh
Her barrage, verbal bash,
But for her vict’ry dash,
The rest is pretty fine.
At first, sham of her sigh,
Her voice then goes on high,
But for ‘her way or nay’,
The rest is pretty fine.
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Ghazal (Tongue-in-cheek) |08.06.2024| humour, wife
Based on a Gujarati Hazal by Sanjay Bapodariya (Sangee)
C-ouplet
H-ymn
E-xpresses
N-ice
S-ong
A-s
G-hazal
U-ses
I-ndependent
L-ines
O-f
N-atural
G-reatness
A-nd
N-iceness
Topic: Birthday of Chen Saguilongan (July 03)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
G-hazal
L-ines
O-f
R-hyme
I-n
A-crostic
S-imply
U-se
M-essage
A-nd
L-ove
P-ainting
O-ne
N-ice
G-low
Topic: Birthday of Gloria F. Sumalpong (June 26)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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